How to set up the screen saver to activate when the mouse is at a corner?

[gene heskett]

On Sunday, May 15, 2011 03:06:21 PM Peter Nikolic did opine:

> On Sunday 15 May 2011 19:42:42 gene heskett wrote:
> > On Sunday, May 15, 2011 02:20:50 PM Marcelo Magno T. Sales did opine:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > There was an option in the screen saver configuration screen to
> > > activate the screen saver when the mouse was moved to a corner of
> > > the screen. When I updated from KDE 4.5.x to 4.6.x (Kubuntu), the
> > > screen saver stopped been activated when I place the mouse on the
> > > corner I had selected for that. This was working ok in 4.5.x.
> > > I see that the option to set this up does not exist in the screen
> > > saver configuration screen anymore.
> > > I noticed that, in System Settings, there is an applet named
> > > "Workspace behavior" (or something like that, I'm translating from
> > > brazilian portuguese), which has a "Screen corners" tab. There I
> > > can configure some actions to be started when the mouse is placed
> > > at a chosen corner, but activating the screen saver is not on the
> > > list of possible actions. Is there a way in KDE 4.6.x to set up the
> > > screen saver to be activated when the mouse is placed at one of the
> > > screen corners?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > Marcelo
> > 
> > Marcelo, I have no clue, and despite asking here and there, no has
> > told me yet why x/kde turns off the DPMS & such when it starts,
> > leaving you only with the power wasting screen decorators.
> 
> I wish it would i get sick of typing "xset -dpms  after ever single
> update
> 

Huh?  Did I use a double negative somewhere Pete? "xset -dpms" turns it 
off, leaving you with the scene I described and detest.

See man xset.

> > So while this box runs 24/7,
> > when I get up to go carve a stick of wood, it may be hours before I
> > come back and I seen no earthly reason that the monitors backlight
> > needs to have those hours or watts wasted to run it during those
> > extended times when I am not around.  I made me a ~/bin directory
> > years ago to hold the stuff that I need as the lone user of this
> > machine, and there are all sorts of things in there, some of which
> > have largely been rendered moot by the making of ntpd in recent
> > history so that it Just Works(TM).
> > 
> > Anyway (and a copy is attached if the server passes it)
> > ------------------
> > #!/bin/bash
> > xset +dpms
> > sleep 1
> > xset dpms 0 0 450
> > ------------------
> > That's it, 4 lines.  Adjust the last value which is the DPMS powerdown
> > time in seconds, to suit you, put it in your ~/bin (export
> > PATH=~/bin:$PATH) and give it execute perms.  If KDE had an init.d,
> > which I haven't found, I would see if I could set it up to be the
> > last thing that the kde/x startup does.  As it is, I am reminded to
> > run it from a konsole the first time I come back in the room & find I
> > am looking at the analog clock I use for a blanker. :(
> > 
> > I have no clue where in the startup DPMS gets shut off, according to
> > my Xorg.0.log, it is still enabled at the end of the x startup
> > logging, but it will not work, and never has since kde4 came out,
> > until I either run this script or do the 2 important 'xset' lines by
> > hand from a konsole.
> 
> Pete


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